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PRESS RELEASE HONORABLE MENTION AWARD FOR VALENCIA WASTE TREATMENT PLANT Valencia Waste Treatment Plant Israel Alba architecture can change office has received an Honorable Mention Award for Public Interest Design Global.
About Award for Public Interest Design Global Is an international award with the aim to recognize design projects with exceptional social, economic and environmental impact; the award represents the forces needed to create truly sustainable projects and positive change in the world. The 2013 theme focused on Effectiveness, Excellence, Inclusiveness, Impactful, and Systemic and Participatory. Ecole Spécial d’Architecture in Paris, Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network recently announced the six winning projects and the six honourable mentions for this year's competition. The international jury: Cindy Cooper (Impact Entrepreneurs), Maggie Stephenson (UNHabitat) Raul Pantaleo, (Tam Associati), Deanna VanBuren (FOURM Design Studio) and Vinay Venkatarman (Frugal Digital), have selected these 12 projects among more than 500 entries, covering 28 countries. Valencia Waste Treatment Plant has been the only awarded project from Europe. +info http://designcorps.org/pid-global/ Sponsors: Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Design Corps, The Fetzer Institute and the SEED Network.
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ISRAEL ALBA
Founded his own architectural firm in 2000. Since 2007, he has divided his time between his professional practice and lecturing in architecture as an Associate Professor at the Madrid Campus for the Architecture School of Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (UPSAM). His work has received numerous international and national prizes and awards, including Europe 40 under 40 in 2011, the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture in 2011, Award from the Madrid Architects Association COAM in 2009 and 2005, the EXPOSYNERGY A.Prize in 2010 and the ULI Europe Award in 2004.
He has lectured on the issue of waste and possible solutions in Malaysia, Argentina, Brazil and Spain, and has been invited to sit on architectural juries for competitions. His work has been exhibited and published in national and international specialist media.
WASTE CAN LAB
Israel Alba heads a multidisciplinary international firm of architecture, design and urbanism, headquartered in Madrid, based on a collaborative, multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary approach to architecture, design and urbanism. It deals with the contemporary city as a complex, variable phenomenon and embraces its continuous transformation as a positive, optimistic process. Through its operating platform WASTE CAN LAB, its architecture focuses on the issue of waste and possible solutions. It is involved in theoretical and academic research and debate, whilst also working on real practical issues in the construction of large-scale projects.
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, DECEMBER 10, 2013 CONTACT: Bryan Bell, [email protected]: http://www.designcorps.org/pid-global
PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN: GLOBAL PROJECT WINNERS SELECTED Paris / Raleigh, NC Ecole Spécial d’Architecture, Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network announce that six projects have been selected through a competitive jury process and will be presented at a public two‐day global convening in Paris on April 18 and 19, 2014. The applications covered 28 countries and were very competitive with jury deliberations digging deeply into all six selection criteria: Effectiveness, Excellence, Inclusiveness, Impactful, and Systemic and Participatory. The Public Interest Design – Global winning projects are:
• Comunidad Ecologica Saludable [Healthy Ecological Community] ‐ Lima, Peru • Walk [Your City] ‐ Raleigh, North Carolina • Can City ‐ Sao Paulo, Brazil • TAEQ Green Building Headquarters ‐ Sakhnin, Israel • Umusozi Ukiza "Healing Hill" ‐ Butaro Doctor Housing ‐ Butaro, Burera District, Rwanda • Joler Jonno Utshob ‐ A Dug Well Pavilion ‐ Dhaka, Bangladesh
Honorable Mentions were awarded to:
• Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts ‐ Philadelphia, PA • Kitakami ‐ "We Are One" Market and Youth Center ‐ Kitakami‐cho, Ishinomaki, Japan • People Organizing Place [POP] ‐ Neighborhood Stories ‐ Dallas, TX • Valencia Waste Treatment Plant ‐ Valencia, Spain • Manica Football for Hope Centre ‐ Bairro Vumba, Manica, Mozambique • FIC (Fit In Community): A soil house prototype for the poor ‐ Mtwapa, Kenya
The international jury members are: Cindy Cooper of Impact Entrepreneurs; Maggie Stephenson of UNHabitat; Raul Pantaleo of Tam Associati; Deanna VanBuren of FOURM Design Studio; and Vinay Venkatarman of Frugal Digital. Public Interest Design Europe is co‐chaired by Bryan Bell from Design Corps and Dr. Marie Aquilino of Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris. The April convening, Public Interest Design – Global, will be held at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris. The convening is an opportunity to discuss the emerging practice of designing for social impact and how best to radically increase the value of design for the public good. The winning projects demonstrate how design can address the Social, Economic and Environmental challenges across the globe. Funding for the convening is provided by the Surdna Foundation, and by the Fetzer Institute whose mission it is to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community.
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